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...The New Life by Tom Crewe, Chatto & Windus £16.99, 384 pages/Scribner $28, 400 pages...
...Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller, Simon and Schuster £20/Scribner $30 If oil was the key to the economy of the 20th century, semiconductors look like the foundation...
...Love Marriageby Monica Ali, Virago £18.99/Scribner $27.99 It’s nearly 20 years since Ali burst on to the literary scene with her debut Brick Lane....
...James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published in 1922, just over two weeks after the British handed over the keys of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins and his new Irish government....
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
...’s Actress (Jonathan Cape RRP£16.99/Norton RRP$26.95, February) and Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty (Picador RRP£16.99/Scribner RRP$26, February)....
...The Kremlin’s Candidate , by Jason Matthews, Michael Joseph, RRP£12.99/Scribner, RRP$26.99 The third part of a trilogy featuring Colonel Dominika Egorova of the Russian foreign intelligence service and...
...Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving, by Julia Samuel, Penguin Life, RRP£14.99/Scribner, RRP$26 This book by a grief psychotherapist is a salve to the bereaved....
...Gangsters also figure in Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (Corsair, RRP£8.99/Scribner, RRP$27), a beautiful account of the fate of an Irish family from Brooklyn during the Depression and second world war...
...Sing, Unburied, Sing , by Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury, RRP£12.99/Scribner, RRP$26, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Devil’s Day , by Andrew Michael Hurley, John Murray, RRP£12.99 Hurley’s first novel was The Loney, a prizewinning gothic triumph produced by a small Yorkshire press, later picked up by John Murray....
...Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje, Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 The first novel in seven years by the author of The English Patient....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...April The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, Simon & Schuster, RRP$24.99 / Viking, RRP£14.99 Puett’s course on classical Chinese...
...Godfrey’s intricately plotted, tremendously gripping time-travel thriller evokes Michael Crichton at his best....
...Doctor Sleep , by Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£19.99/Scribner, RRP$30 King’s excellent sequel to The Shining revisits Danny Torrance, the ghost-haunted boy in his 1977 classic....
...With an appropriately Shandyan anachronism, the filmmaker Michael Winterbottom introduces into his Tristram Shandy adaptation, A Cock and Bull Story, Dr Johnson’s rueful truism: “Every man thinks meanly...
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